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Sweatt v. Painter et al., 1949 — 338 U.S. 865 · caselaw · US
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Sweatt v. Painter et al.
338 U.S. 865·Supreme Court of the United States·1949
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Opinion
Certiorari Granted. (See also No. 882, supra.)
No. 44.
Sweatt v. Painter et al.
W. J. Durham, William H. Hastie, William R. Ming, Jr., James M. Nabrit, Jr. and Thurgood Marshall for petitioner. Price Daniel, Attorney General of Texas, E. Jacobson, Assistant Attorney General, and Joe R. Greenhill, First Assistant Attorney General, for respondents. Briefs of amici curiae supporting the petition were filed by Thomas I. Emerson, John P. Frank, Harold C. Havighurst and Edward H. Levi for the Committee of Law Teachers Against Segregation in Legal Education; Arthur J. Goldberg and Thomas E. Harris for the Congress of Industrial Organizations; William Maslow, Shad Polier and Joseph B. Robison for the American Jewish Congress; Marcus Cohn and Jacob Grumet for the American Jewish Committee et al.; Phineas Indritz, Paul Dobin and Jerome H. Spingarn for the American Veterans Committee; and Charles H. Tuttle for the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
[MAJORITY]
Supreme Court of Texas. Certiorari granted.